Amazon launched two new services, Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. According to an article on wired.com the music industry will force licenses on Amazon Cloud player. "Cloud Player is an application that lets customers manage and play their own music”. The record companies disagree with Amazon regarding the licenses for music, Amazon states that customers are uploading music to the Cloud Player with the original download licenses and no matter how many times the music is uploaded they do not require a new license, record industry disagrees. Amazon argues that once a customer downloads music to the storage, they will have the ability to re-download as many times; to any device. Allowing the music to be uploaded as many times as the customer likes once they uploaded it to the Cloud player could become a problem, because people can peer to peer share.
According to an article written by Moses Avalon, the Obama administration is going to make torrent streaming (peer to peer); the sharing of music a felony. It could mean that anyone who download music from the illegal sites such as Pirate Bay, Utorrent, Bittorrent and Limewire could face up to 20 years prison time. In the past if a person was caught with Illegal music, they were fined. According to the article, the Obama administration is recommending to Congress to upgrade its illegal sharing of content; a felony. This new law will apply to sites and people using promoting and hosting services such as Utorrent, Bittorrent and Limewire. My opinion is, the law should be in affect, I don’t think it requires a 20 year prison sentence. Giving a harsher penalty for anyone who breaks this law would alleviate the illegal sharing that is taking revenue from the artist and all the people involved in that artists project.
According to Larry Rother of the New York Times, the copyright law was revised in the mid-1970; the law gives artist the opportunity to regain control of their work. Kenneth J. Abdo a lawyer who leads termination rights working group, stated that the four major labels, Universal, Sony, EMI, and Warner are not in favor of artist regaining control of their past works, they are not giving up without a fight. The label contends that they own the masters to the music not the artist, because they were “works for hire”. The federal district court in New York ruled that the recordings are the property of the record labels. Recordings can become available as early as Jan 1, 2013. The record label owns the copyrights to the masters; in my opinion they are entitled to keep control of the work of the artist.
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